Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

